Africa Wild

and I found again the family... en route to Mata Mata
they are going to the dunes, for the night







and yours Mel

the fire was just behind 14th... going to Urikaruus... and I had "cold sweat" thinking of these 4

I've seen the destruction the fire cause over vast areas, nan

Here's a pic of the little ones. Alas, they hid away without mum and my camera
let me down big time. The surrounding was too 'noisy' and no matter what I did,
the bleeding camera wouldn't focus properly.



The new camera probably would have done the job. But it was smashed by then.

The last king cheetah in Kruger, as far as I know:

And the opposite, from East Africa this year!

Some old scans from unusual Kruger locations:

Shingwedzi S-52 1988:








Renosterpan, about 1995:

about this one of East African, you think he lost her pigmentation ?

nan wrote:about this one of East African, you think he lost her pigmentation ?

It is quite unique, nan! No-one is quite sure!

Seems to be a bit of debate about whether the spotless one is a fake:

This picture shows a very muscular shoulder and a pretty short & thick neck. Honestly this looks like a "photo shopped" picture of a lions body and a cheetah's head...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4279386/.html

it seems, without the spots, we see much more the musculation
and then the appearence of a Lion, but a very deep chest, that Lions don't have
very interesting